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Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

CVE-2012-5618

Medium
5/10

Summary

Ushahidi before 2.6.1 has insufficient entropy for forgot-password tokens.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-640 - Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

The software contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published